Monday, December 24, 2012

Twins Christmas Greatest Hits

This will mark the third Christmas since NoDak Twins Fan was started back in 2010. Every year I have put together a post that related a famous Christmas story or tale to the Twins. This year was a little different as I took the famous song "The Twelve Days of Christmas" and gave it a very Minnesota Twins feel.

It has been fun to put these posts together over the last couple of years so I thought it would be great to do a "Greatest Hits" post. This is in case you have only recently found my blog or maybe you missed one of the Christmas posts along the way.

Here's a look back through the years of Christmas posts at NoDak Twins Fan:

2010: Twas the Night Before Christmas

In my first year of blogging, I took the classic poem/story "Twas the Night Before Christmas" and I gave it a Minnesota Twins theme. The Nishioka signing had just taken place but fans were waiting for other moves to happen. Also the Metrodome roof had recently fallen in so that added to some of the poem.

Last year, I dove headfirst into the classic Dicken's tale "A Christmas Carol" but things had changed a lot since the previous year. Terry Ryan had returned as GM and he was being haunted by the ghost of Bill Smith. Three other ghosts were sent to Ryan's office that night and there was a lesson to be learned from all of this haunting.

When out of no where, the lights began to flicker and a cool breeze swept through the office. After a rush of wind, a large figure stood in front of Mr. Ryan's desk. As the lights still flickered, Ryan finally made sense of the figure that was in his presence. It was the ghost of former GM Bill Smith. Smith had been chase from his job and he had some words of wisdom for Ryan."Beware the angry fan base of the Twins. They will never be satisfied until the team can find postseason success again. The players won't fight through injuries. The starting staff is full of holes and the future does not look in the team's favor. They will chase you out just like they chased me. BEWARE!!!"

2012: The Twins Twelve Days of Christmas

On Friday, I turned to the classic Christmas song "The Twelve Days of Christmas" and I tied the verses into the franchise and the team's history. There were some connections made in the song to things that are part of the team. In the future, I might have to create a YouTube video to correspond with this song.